The NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK. Being Specimens of the Literature of the Granite State.
Nashua: Published by David Marshall, 1842. 1st edition (American Imprints 42-1865]. 10, [2], [13] - 391, [3 (blank)] pp. Errata tipped-in to p. 391. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Yellow eps. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. Wear to extremities, with board showing at tips. Period pos, & po book label to front paste-down. A VG copy. Item #35483
Provenance: Charles Henry Eastman (1823–1898), of Concord, New Hampshire, California Forty-Niner and later Nevada legislator, with his contemporaneous ownership inscription, “C. Henry Eastman / Concord / N. Hampshire”; subsequently William H. Eastman, San Francisco printer, with his printed library label to the front paste-down. The precise relationship, if any, between the two Eastmans remains to be established.
Price: $95.00